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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (8987)	10/23/2000 1:48:30 PM
From: MikeM54321	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12823

"...as was also the case with DSLAM technology. The technologies weren't ready yet." Frank- According to the PRs I read out of the DSL equipment companies, DSL was ready to roll about 7 or 8 years ago. Maybe 9 or 10. About the time I first starting heavily investing in DSL(luckily I pulled out when I saw it was all just a stall tactic). But in this case, you know better than I. Maybe the DSLAM could have been the real reason for no DSL rollouts for years and years. I figured it was the, "We don't care because we don't have too," mantra out of the incumbents. ATT, with it's massive purchase of the cable plant, changed all that virtually overnight. Suddenly we are counting broadband customers by the millions, versus reading incumbent's DSL PR plans by the millions.<g> "Or, that without T we would all still be looking forward to ISDN?" Exactly. And 'looking forward' would still be the operative word.<g> -MikeM(From Florida)